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Militia, nomenclature and lack of prosecution
The government of Ghana said it felt justified when the CNM decided to support the state's argument that the Joy News documentary, Militia at the Heart of the Nation, contained misleading advertising.
The commission claimed that the use of a background showing that the disturbing activities of the militia groups in the country were unethical. Joy News challenged the decision.
But while the government is demanding its justification, questions arise as to the sanctions for those who allowed Commander Nana Wireko Addo aka Choman and his team of young men and women to operate in the former seat of government.
In the documentary Joy News has established the presence of the group operating illegally on the former seat of government. The state did not dispute that, except to say that people were "a group of young men and women, dressed in white shirts and black suits, converging on Osu Castle, persuaded that jobs would be found to them. "
At a press conference in March this year, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said the De-Eye group's leader, Nana Wireko Addo, had been tasked with recovering vehicles. from people appointed by the Mahama administration. to run his own business from the castle.
"After the completion of the work of the task force in August 2018, he then converted the office that had been badigned to him into a private commercial office for the stated purposes of his business," said Mr. Oppong-Nkrumah. Oppong Nkrumah said the situation was being dealt with immediately after his discovery.
"But the case was quickly settled in October 2018, when he was expelled from the scene by a joint operation involving personnel from the National Security Secretariat and the Ghana Police Service," he said. -he declares.
But there are questions. Who was sanctioned for the presence of the population in the state's premises? The government does not say who took the responsibility nor if someone was sanctioned for allowing an unregistered security firm to run from Osu Castle. About Newsfile's report on Joy News' badysis in March this year, private lawyer Ace Ankomah said that deportation was not enough. For him, the state should have ensured the arrest of the people.
"Expulsion means you can go, go and sin no more. But at first sight, these guys are as guilty as sin. But they are expelled and they have the temerity, the impudence, the audacity to return to the places of predilection – the old slave fort – and they must then be re-expelled. You see, the law just does not work in this country, "said Ankomah.
But this is essential because, in the government's statement signed and read by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, after the broadcast of the documentary, people were not allowed to operate on the premises of the state . He said, "Certainly, that should not have happened in the first place."
The group also admitted on its website that it was following security training. Their coaches were former military. His motto was "Vigilance and Protection". The audits of JoyNews revealed that the group had no license to undertake training or security operations, according to the situation's lawyer, Ace Ankomah, considered a criminal.
Former GFA spokesman, Randy Abbey, believes that someone must take responsibility for the operation of the group at the castle.
"Is any one held responsible? So now the focus is on militias, are they willing to violence? They are not. But the truth is that if you find yourself in a situation of fierce struggle between a group and national security, national security is unable three times to kick it out and that it must be strengthened – a joint effort – it can only happen to a group of young men and women who are unemployed and unemployed.
But in all of this, the government talked about the nomenclature, the way the people should call themselves "militant" or militant), but very silent about the pursuit of the group or the punishment of whoever was responsible for the occupation of the group at the castle. .
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